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WELCOME POTLUCK

Greetings, residents! Those more observant sorts among you may have noticed a large influx of very crowded ferries. In order to welcome our new residents en masse, Town Hall is holding a potluck in Town Square. Please bring a dish if you are able and make a new friend!

All of our newest arrivals need only bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you all into our community, and may your lanterns always be lit.

This event is open to all! In light of our new influx of prospective players following the Great Sail Migration, we've decided to offer a small public event to tide everyone over until the TDM this weekend.

Comments

[yournewsidekick]

Guess what! Now there are two dogs at the potluck!

The bright pink, lanky-looking stray that's been lurking around the food sidles over to Amaterasu, tensed like she's on high alert. She takes a cautious seat once she's a couple yards away and tries to put on a studied air of oh, hey, what a coincidence, here we are, just two dogs sharin' a spot on the sidewalk. Amaterasu's friendliness is a good sign, yeah, but -- who knows. Dogs chase other dogs off their territory all the time, and River said this particular dog was a goddess. Nimona's ready to book it back to the cold cuts at the slightest growl.

[i_ink_therefore_i_ammy]

This, Amaterasu is familiar with. So she sits still for a moment before taking on the play! pose and wagging her tail dramatically. New! Dog! New! Dog! So many dogs here! No one can blame her for being excited, yeah? More dogs means more chances to run and play and just be dog!

[yournewsidekick]

Oh. Oh! Okay, cool!

Nimona's tail starts to wag too, hopeful, as she gets up from her spot to pace closer. She cranes her neck to try and get a few good sniffs of Amaterasu in greeting. Little by little, the pace of her tail-wagging picks up.

Friend, maybe? New friend who's not a human?

[i_ink_therefore_i_ammy]

Ammy smells like summer sun and warm breezes, flowers and just a tiny hint of smoke. She grins a doggy grin and does a full body friendship shake!

[yournewsidekick]

NEW FRIEND YAY

It's so much easier to interact with a dog right now -- even a goddess-dog -- than it'd ever be with a human. It feels like the in-between moments when she's left one form but hasn't quite created another to replace it. No thoughts, no pain; just emotion, free and unencumbered by any expectations the world wants to place on her.

In this case, the emotion is I want to play-tackle my new friend to the ground.

Nimona pounces, ready to wrestle!

[i_ink_therefore_i_ammy]

Roll roll roll whee stop! Doggy wrestling! All playful barks and not-actually-growls an it's probably such a sight to see, isn't it? Not that Ammy has ever been truly self conscious.

She's slippery, is what she is. One wouldn't think that much dog could move the way she does. But rather than ever 'win' she keeps playing, delighting in the pure joy of just two dogs, having fun!

[yournewsidekick]

Oh man this is the best, even on the ship she never really let loose like this --

Nimona doesn't realize right away that she's laughing like a human would. And in one particularly slippery moment, she can't stop herself: she melts into a ripple of sparks and zips a foot to the left to dodge Amaterasu's next tackle.

Whereupon she freezes, caught somewhere between embarrassment and wariness, as her tail slowly droops.

[i_ink_therefore_i_ammy]

Ammy isn't frightened, afraid, or angry. Whatever reaction Nimona fears simply isn't there. Time just seems to drag against the clock for a moment, and then just as quickly she's right there beside her, grinning cheekily and nuzzling against Nimona's side. "That's a good trick."

Sometimes a few words are better than many.

[yournewsidekick]

...Okay, yeah, it was probably dumb of her to think a goddess-dog would run away from a little shapeshifting.

Nimona grins back -- the embarrassment remains, albeit fainter than before -- as her tail gradually picks up wagging again. "Still dunno how much everybody's gonna freak out here," she admits, bumping her nose against Amaterasu's.

[i_ink_therefore_i_ammy]

"I cannot imagine any here would be particularly worried by that. Strange things abound. A dead man is friend to many, and several shapeshifters are friends of mine." Ammy gives her a friendly return bump, tail wagging in sync with Nimona's.

[yournewsidekick]

She laughs, a little disbelieving -- but not in a bad way. More like you'd laugh as you stared at the winning numbers of a lottery ticket.

"So I really did hit the jackpot twice in a row?" The velocity of her tail picks up. "Everybody's cool with monsters here, too?"